From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 9 23:29:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thoth.mch.sni.de (thoth.mch.sni.de [192.35.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517BD15264 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 23:29:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ust@cert.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: ust@cert.siemens.de (at relayer thoth.mch.sni.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by thoth.mch.sni.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02162; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:28:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA10700; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:28:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (alaska.cert.siemens.de [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/Siemens CERT [ $Revision: 1.9 ]) with ESMTP id IAA66300; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ust@localhost) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/alaska [ $Revision: 1.2 ]) id GAA12084; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 06:28:55 GMT (envelope-from ust) Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 08:28:55 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert To: Arcady Genkin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Specifying default route Message-ID: <19991010082855.A12040@alaska.cert.siemens.de> References: <87905bg29a.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <87905bg29a.fsf@main.wgaf.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 02:26:25AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Hi all: > > What's the correct way of specifying default route, if a machine has 2 > nics? I imagine there should be something like > > default_route="ed1" > I just checked "man rc.conf" and it gives (under 3.3-RELEASE): ...... defaultrouter (str) If not set to NO then create a default route to this host name or IP address (use IP address value if you also require this router to get to a name server!) ....... Anyway: the case for specifying an interface is not described here, but in your case you should do defaultrouter="-interface ed1" in your /etc/rc.conf.local. Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Udo Schweigert || Voice : +49 89 636 42170 Siemens AG, Siemens CERT || Fax : +49 89 636 41166 ZT IK 3 || email : Udo.Schweigert@mchp.siemens.de D-81730 Muenchen / Germany || : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP fingerprint || 2A 53 F6 A6 30 59 64 02 6B C4 E0 73 B2 C9 6C E7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message